Yearly Archives: 2000

AT&T introduces wireless Internet service

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is jumping in the wireless Internet pool again, with the introduction of its Digital PocketNet service.Unlike AT&T's first attempt,...

Powertel unveils GSM chat serªvice

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services provider serving the southeastern United States, introduced its PowerChat text message service designed to deliver messages...

Gov’t must help bring telecom to underserved

This is a copy of a letter sent to President Clinton in response to his recent American tour exposing the lack of wireless telephony...

Products

Interactive SolutionsTeltronics Inc. announced its subsidiary, Interactive Solutions Inc., developed a new product offering, the MentisSoft iCommunicator system, which makes verbal communications possible between...

PhotoJet licenses CDMA technology for digital cameras

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and PhotoJet L.L.C., a developer of wireless imaging technologies, entered a worldwide Code Division Multiple Access license agreement for wireless digital...

ADC CEO to retire next year

MINNEAPOLIS-William Cadogan, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said he will retire from ADC after a transition to a new...

Motorola garners GSM contract in China

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $5.8 million contract by China Telecom to provide seven Global System for Mobile communications...

SigmaOne licenses Radix location technology

LOS ANGELES-SigmaOne Communications and Radix Technologies Inc. announced a joint agreement under which SigmaOne will have an exclusive license to Radix Technologies' GeoPhone Code...

Sina.com to deliver WAP content to Chinese

BEIJING-Sina.com, an Internet media and services company geared toward the Chinese community, signed separate memoranda of understanding agreements with L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and...

SkyGo announces wireless marketing platform

SAN MATEO, Calif.-SkyGo unveiled plans for a wireless interactive marketing platform that will be available for licensing to credit card companies, wireless services providers...

Sunday partners for 3G development

HONG KONG-Sunday Communications Ltd. announced plans to work with Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and PacketVideo to develop wireless Internet services for customers in the...

Sybase subsidiary to support business users

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support.Sybase...

Telespatial to use infoUSA services

MCLEAN, Va.-Telespatial Inc. will use info-USA.com's online directory content, under a licensing agreement between the two companies.Telespatial is a wireless application services provider of...

TeleCorp turns on Lucent switch

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company's westward network expansion and to...

Telenor acquires Thai stakes

OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and...

Consumers want wireless access to e-mail, surveys say

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail.Telephia Inc....

Tiaxa launches Latin American wireless portal

MIAMI-Tiaxa launched its panregional wireless Internet portal in Latin America, offering wireless phone users personalized, location-sensitive mobile Internet services.The company noted it can capitalize...

TowerCom adds West Coast towers

ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and...

Wireless industry’s readiness for data debated

PHILADELPHIA-The wireless industry is not ready for the advent of wireless data even as data is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry and...

Furchtgott-Roth assails wireless for not protesting fees

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount...

US Unwired IPO priced lower than expected

NEW YORK-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. squeaked through its initial public offering May 18, pricing its 8-million-share deal at $11 each, $2 below...

Viewpoint: High-tech cheating

How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless...

Vyyo, Remec pair for MMDS equipment

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo Inc. said it has joined Remec Inc. to develop customer premises equipment products for use in multichannel multipoint distribution system broadband wireless...

Webraska opens access to navigation server to wireless carriers

LONDON-Webraska Mobile Technologies, a provider of traffic maps and navigation services on Internet mobile phones, is opening access to its Global Navigation Server to...

Multiband approach gains followers at WRC

WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum...
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